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Greetings, friends and listeners. Earlier this year we solicited ideas and advice from you all and used that to run an experimental world-building game set on a distant colony world. It was a lot of fun, and we think we…

Direct Download: Dissecting Worlds: Live Special! This month Matt and Kehaar head off into Deep Space, to chart the destiny of our very own world. Yes, it’s the Dissecting Worlds Live Episode, where we run through our first live event,…

Can I just say that I adore Chris Foss’ artwork? Anyway, our next episode is currently chuntering through the pipes of the mighty Dissecting Worlds Editing Organ, is the Grand Wrap-Up for Dissecting Worlds Live. So if you’re still wondering how…

First of all a huge thank you to everyone who helped out with Dissecting Worlds Live. We got a lot of suggestions of Factions, Crisis and general world-building, and a lot of people who re-tweeted, shared and generally sent good…

With only a couple of weeks to go, this update on Dissecting Worlds Live! covers the framework rules for Crisis Management, leaving heavily on the FATE system we’ve also used to build factions. As ever, this is a block of…

Right them, back with more stuff for the DW Live! At this point, still four weeks out, we’ve still collating crisis and faction suggestions so please keep them coming. This post will give a bit more background on the main…

We’ve a lot of great suggestions for Factions, who we hope will really be the main drivers of activity on our new Colony World. We’re starting to firm up the rules for how they will interact, using, as base, the…

We’ve had a great response to the idea of doing a Community World-Building Game, and a lot of questions. So, here are quick answers to the most common. General So, have the two of you gone completely nuts? Yes, probably.

Here at Dissecting Worlds Towers we are often talking about worldbuilding, and the processes that drive it, and passing out own skewed judgements on the works of others. But wait, you said, why don’t you try it yourselves? And thats…